Aunt Dofeen Finally Gets to Sail

Every family needs
An Aunt Dofeen,
Someone whose
Free spirited
Flamboyance,
And outrageous
Eccentricities
Never ceased
To ruffle the feathers
Of her more
Conservative siblings.
Though she was
Sixty-nine years old
At the time,
She didn’t hesitate
A heartbeat
When it came to
The opportunity
To sail with her
Exuberant nephews.
Her father had been
A prominent naval captain
Many years before,
And she remembered
The feeling of being
Left behind
While he gallivanted around
The South Pacific,
And she wasn’t about
To let that happen again.